The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing--that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack--but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.Wow.
Saturday, July 23, 2005
From the Department of the Absolutely Terrifying
Buzzflash linked to this blog discussing a recent article in the American Conservative (not online):
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well this ain't new news as for the overall plan -- only in specifics, though earlier 'specifics' said this was to commence by July this year. thank god for the resistance in iraq that it hasn't happened by now. not to thank god for the tens of thousands dead there of course, but those tens of thousands have saved a whole new batch of even more tens of thousands that would be dead in iran by now. only one problem: as gwynne dyer says, if the iraqi resistance doesn't force the u.s. out within 5 years we can kiss a final goodbye to all that we thought our fathers fought for in WW2. can that be done? or is the plan to just keep on bombing the shit out of iran for the next ten years like they did with iraq before the land invasion? (and no, i ain't anti-american -- have good u.s. friends and an iraqi friend, and one of my sons has served in iraq -- just pro-sanity) (of course, the unspoken factor in all of this is israel and the pro-israeli lobby in washington, but let's not go there if we wish to avoid any fully comprehensive understanding of what the hell is really going on with all this shit)
that 'anonymous' was not meant to be anon.. it was from me, neil godfrey.
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